Overview
- Court-appointed referee James Winiarski found 10 violations of attorney ethics rules tied to Gableman’s leadership of Wisconsin’s 2020 election inquiry.
- Gableman entered a no-contest plea and previously stipulated with the Office of Lawyer Regulation to a three-year suspension.
- The recommendation calls for Gableman to pay all disciplinary costs, and the referee invoiced the court $8,208 for nearly 109 hours of work.
- Misconduct findings cite false public statements about a judge, an opposing attorney, and two mayors, defiance of a court order, open-records failures, and disruptive courtroom behavior.
- The state-funded investigation uncovered no widespread fraud and cost taxpayers roughly $2.5 to $2.8 million.